T Shirt (album)

T Shirt
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1976
StudioRecord Plant, New York City
GenreFolk
LabelArista
ProducerLoudon Wainwright III
Loudon Wainwright III chronology
Unrequited
(1975)
T Shirt
(1976)
Final Exam
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Christgau's Record GuideB+

T Shirt is a 1976 album by Loudon Wainwright III. Unlike his earlier records, this (and the subsequent Final Exam) saw Wainwright adopt a full blown rock band (Slowtrain) - though there are acoustic songs on T Shirt, including a talking blues. According to Wainwright on the 2006 CD liner notes, it received a scathing review from Rolling Stone which depressed him so much he stayed in bed for five days. By the early 1990s, he disowned the album in a radio interview broadcast in Australia. However, by the time of the CD remaster (which included Final Exam) he admitted to a much more sympathetic view of the album(s), which he referred to as his 'puppies'.